I am passing by here every week to check if there are new releases for my loved photopost and vbGallery but within the last month I have the feeling that only smaller bugfixes were made.
I am missing the bigbang and do not really see that the scripts are making progress.
Photopost has still an old AdminCP and needs some fresh air removing the dust from it. The vBIntegration could also be better I think.
I am missing multilingual functions to be able to create categories and descriptions in several languages and more easy AJAX administration.
vBGallery looks also not very promising to me at the moment. Since it was bought I do not see a new major vBG Release which integrates with socials groups, the blog system or gives the + functionality that it had 1 or 2 years ago.

At the moment it feels like the scripts where sold as long as customers are willed to pay for them. Bugfixes are released but yeah, like I said I am missing the big bang.

Its not that I am unsatisfied with the scripts, I love them but it looks like they stand still to me.

No I did not miss it. I renewed my member area access and installed it but maybe I expect other things in a new release.

I am thinking about:
- more AJAX usage
- a better AdminCP with more comfort functions for the admin
- a better integration into vBulletin (Blog, Album, SocialGroups and while posting threads)
- better multi language support
- ...

Like I said, this is not a blaming post and I see that you still release new updates but pp looks like we have to get the dust from it (looks quite old) and for vbgallery I whish more updates and more features.
I am using pp for a long time now but the basic style still looks like years ago.

Chuck I have a good example.
I am using the Geek Gallery Popup Addon which adds a small link under the smilies you see in the post editor on the right side.
With this addon I can directly choose an image from my galleries and put them in a thread.
This is a good example for a really good function.
At the moment you have to open the gallery, copy the link to an image, create a thread and paste the link in it. Not very comfortable and for some users (which are to stupid) also to complicated.

This is what I am walking about. I really would like to see more options like this or AJAX tools to make working with the gallery easier for the admin and the users.

We should not forget that the gallery should be useable for users which normally not working with it or with vbulletin and there are a lot of them.

well alot of what I see here is your talking about vbulletin modifications to their code and not specifically our code. Addons is what I here.

Your free to post suggestions in the suggestions forum under each product. I can tell you the only product to most likely be able to get some sort of function like this would not likely be vbgallery so feel free to post there.

If there are not suggestions like this in the appopriate suggestions forum the developer will never see these.

Chuck I have a good example.
I am using the Geek Gallery Popup Addon which adds a small link under the smilies you see in the post editor on the right side.
With this addon I can directly choose an image from my galleries and put them in a thread.
This is a good example for a really good function.
At the moment you have to open the gallery, copy the link to an image, create a thread and paste the link in it. Not very comfortable and for some users (which are to stupid) also to complicated.

This is something that should not be too difficult to implement. I kindly asked for this myself and it seems to me that vbGallery just stopped. I don't hear from any changes currently in development. I use it for almost one year now and I think nothing really changed since. Especially the function you describe should be part of vbGallery as it is a vBulletin plug-in (kindof) and this just tightens Forum Integration. I think it is a missed change but who am I to judge.

I also use vbGallery. In fact, it was the most important reason for me to switch my Forum from phpBB to VB. I love this gallery but there are still some bugs, that haven't been fixed. Nothing serious, but the gallery isn't working correctly. For example the gallery causes an error in the user's profile (last post of user) and viewing a category also shows wrong category names...

I don't want to change my gallery to photopost pro. That would destroy many links to my album pictures.

...but the answers from the other users show that they also have the feeling that vbGallery stands still.
I have the feeling that Photopost bought vBGallery from the market to get rid of a competitor.
I hope that Photopost sees the chance and make a good gallery for everyone (photopost) and a super integrated vbulletin gallery (vbgallery) but since you bought vbgallery not much has been done in my eyes.

I have to repeat myself, this is not a flaming thread cause product, price and support are still very well, its only that I am missing a new version which adds the little extra's to the products like it was years ago.

We are all entitled to our opinions. There have been numerous releases of both products over the last couple years and both products have had new features added. That is the fact not an opinion. Both products have had at least two new releases a year. Usually one larger than the other. Remember when we obtained vbGallery it was version 1.0 only having only been a released stable product for like 6 months or so. Now there are like 4 different code branches not an easy thing to manage. Photopost was like in version 5.21. If I add up all the revisions that have been released since we obtained vbGallery thats alot of releases.

Michael I do beleive is working on coming up with a vbGallery beta in the near future now that Photopost 6.2 has been released.

thanks again for answering. I think you should close this thread now.
I stated what I wanted and got a good answer. Now its on me to show
patience again and wait for one of the next releases.
I think my comments are nothing really getable from a developers perspective but I hope you got the point?

I understand we are not doing things fast enough for everyone thats inevitable in the software business

I just want you to understand that looking at the overall picture in the past 2 years there has been alot of progress forward if one looks at the versions of both packages we had back then and whats released now.

Just remember it takes vbulletin years of beta testing to release a new code branch. They put out little dot bug releases fast but the development side of that product takes along time. I remember vb 3 was almost like 3 years. 3.5 was at least 2 years.

As I indicated in another thread; I am taking over vBGallery development and we are recruiting additional support and development staff to replace those who have moved on. I am hopeful for an update before end of year that incorporates the flash uploader PRO just got along with some usability updates.

We are not a big company and like most software companies we have to try and manage some large projects with a small staff. The difference between ourselves and some other vendors we've seen come and go is that after 8 years we are still here actively working on our projects and supporting them. We intend to continue doing this even in our ever changing environment.

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